Huion Note User manual

Huion Note
Contents
Introduction .......................................................... 2
Product Overview ...................................................... 2
Note-taking Mode ..................................................... 5
Pen Tablet Mode ..................................................... 11
Driver Installation .................................................... 12
Windows .......................................................... 12
Mac ............................................................. 15
Linux ............................................................. 18
Driver ............................................................. 27
Driver Interface Overview ............................................... 27
Pen Tablet Setting .................................................... 29
Digital Pen Setting .................................................... 33
Driver Setting ....................................................... 37
How to Use the Digital Pen .............................................. 41
Troubleshooting ...................................................... 43
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Introduction
Thanks for choosing Huion’s smart digital notebook Huion Note.
Equipped with notebook-like hardware and corresponding software, Huion Note can recognize
and convert your handwriting to a digitized one and enables you to take notes digitally when
studying and working and share them with others whenever you want and wherever you go,
which is different from traditional paper-based recording. With the application, you can
manage, edit, and save these digitized notes on a phone or tablet with great convenience.
To better know and use this product, please read this user manual carefully.
Note: The pictures in the User Manual are for reference only.
Product Overview
Open the cover of Huion Note to turn it on, and then you can note down or draw on the
notepad inside it. Close the cover to turn it off.
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1.Indicator Light Status
There is an indicator light on Huion Note hardware to help you check the status of the smart
digital notebook.
Battery：
A red light flashes till the battery is dead. The battery goes below 10%.
A red light flashes for 1 minute. The battery of Huion Note goes below 20%.
A steady green light appears. The battery of Huion Note goes above 20%.
A steady red light appears. The battery of Huion Note is charging.
Connection: A steady green light appears. Huion Note hardware has not been connected to any device
yet and thus is in offline mode.
A steady blue light appears. Huion Note application and hardware are connected.
A steady white light appears. Huion Note hardware is connected to a computer via a cable
(a steady red light will appear if the battery of Huion Note hardware goes below 100%).
A 3s blue light changes to a steady white light. Huion Note and a computer are connected via Bluetooth and the driver is running.
A steady blue/white light changes to a steady green light. The Huion Note hardware is disconnected from a phone, tablet, or computer.
Note: After the function button has been pressed for 3s to disconnect Huion Note hardware to your
computer, tablet or phone, the smart digital notebook may not be able to automatically connect to
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these devices unless you use Bluetooth on the computer or Huion Note application to reconnect them.
Recording:
A green light flashes 3 times. In offline mode, the function button is pressed to create a new page.
A blue light flashes 3 times. In Bluetooth mode, the function button is pressed to create a new page.
A green light flashes for 2 minutes. The memory of Huion Note hardware is full.
2. Accessories
Smart Digital Notebook x 1
U-shaped Nib Clip x 1
Notepad x 1
Magnetic Pen Sleeve x1
Battery-free Digital Pen x 1
USB-C cable x 1
Ballpoint Pen Nib x 4
Plastic Pen Nib x 2
Panel x 1
Quick Start Guide x 1
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Note-taking Mode
By using the special pen nib with ink, you can write something down on the notepad that is
put on the smart digital notebook to get common paper notes easily. Additionally, with Huion
Note application, you can obtain the same digitized notes simultaneously when writing on the
notepad after connecting the smart digital notebook to a phone or tablet running iOS, Android
OS, or Harmony OS.
Connect to A Phone or Tablet
1. Download and install the Huion Note application, then turn on the Bluetooth on your phone
or tablet.
2. Open the smart digital notebook, and a steady green light will appear. Tap the Connect
button on the top-right corner of the application (See picture 1) and a pop-up window appears
(See picture 2).
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3. Choose “Connect via Bluetooth” and select “Huion Note-X10” on the “Available Devices” to
connect.
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4. Or you can tap “Scan to connect” and then scan the QR code inside the cover of Huion Note
hardware to connect.
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5. After they are connected, the green light will turn blue, and the icon of the Connect button
will change from a red diagonal to a blue check mark (See the picture below).
Note: the Connect button with a blue cloud appears to show that the application and Huion
Note hardware are connected and there are offline digital notes to be uploaded.
Create Online Digital Notes with the Application
1.Create a new digital notebook: Tap the New... (plus mark) button on the top-right corner to
create a new digital notebook and then choose a cover for it.
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2. Create online simultaneous digital notes: After Huion Note application is connected to the
hardware, you need to open a digital notebook within the application. Then you can write in
this notebook with your fingers on the screen of your phone or tablet to create an online note.
Or you can note down on the notepad inside the smart digital notebook, and then your
handwriting on the paper will be converted into digitized notes and displayed on the
application in real time, indicating you are creating online simultaneous digital notes.
3. Create a new digital page: You can create a new digital page via Huion Note hardware or
application.
①Find and press the function button on the top right of the smart digital notebook
②In Huion Note application, find the Add Page button on the bottom and tap it.
Create Offline Digital Notes with Huion Note Hardware
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1. Not connected to Huion Note application: Open the smart digital notebook to turn it on,
and the indicator will be green. What you write on the notepad will be converted and stored in
Huion Note hardware as offline digital notes.
2. Connected to Huion Note application: If you do not open any digital notebook in the
application before writing, the handwriting on the notepad will not be displayed on the screen
of your phone or tablet in real time but be saved automatically as offline digital notes in Huion
Note hardware.
3. Create a new digital page: When Huion Note hardware is not connected to the application,
you can press the function button on the top right of it to create a new digital page
accordingly to avoid overlapping contents of two pages in a wrong way.
Synchronize Between the Application and Hardware
When the hardware is connected to the application, a pop-up window may appear on the
screen if there are offline notes in the hardware to be uploaded (See picture 1 below).
1. To upload these notes, you can tap Synchronize first, select a notebook, and then tap Yes to
start synchronizing.
2. If you select Cancel at the beginning but later desire to synchronize these notes, you can tap
the Connect button on the home page to call up that pop-up window again and start
synchronizing.
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Note:①Enable “Bind This Notebook” and all offline notes will be uploaded to the bound
notebook by default next time.
②If you want to change the bound notebook, please tap the Connect button to call
up Device Details, then tap Change A Notebook, and choose another notebook to synchronize
by default.
Pen Tablet Mode
Huion Note hardware can be used as a pen tablet when it is connected to a computer running
Windows OS or macOS via Bluetooth or a cable. To ensure a better drawing experience, please
download the driver of Huion Note from Huion’s official website, stick the complimentary
panel on the smart digital notebook, and change the ballpoint pen nib to a plastic nib .
Connect the Hardware to a Computer
Note: the smart digital notebook can only be used as a pen tablet when connected to a
computer.
1. Please download and install the driver Driver-Huion Note for your smart digital notebook
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from our official website.
2. Connect the smart digital notebook to your computer via a USB-C cable.
3. Or you can turn on Bluetooth on your computer, and pair the computer with Huion Note
hardware to connect.
4. Open the driver, and a picture of the smart digital notebook will appear, indicating that they
are connected successfully and you can use the smart digital notebook now.
Driver Installation
Windows
How to Install the Driver on Windows Device
Notice:
① Before installing the driver, please close all graphic software and antivirus programs. The
note (“HuionTabletCore.exe” failed to launch!) below appears only on devices with Windows
OS, indicating that the driver is blocked by antivirus programs or drawing applications.
② Please make sure your computer operating system is Windows 7 or later.
③ Open the driver and a picture of Huion Note will appear, indicating that the pen display is
successfully connected to your computer. Now you can use your pen display.
④ If the connection fails, please restart the driver or your computer.
Note: The pen display cannot work once the driver is uninstalled or deleted. In this case
please click Driver-Huion Note to reinstall a driver, and your pen display and digital pen will
restore to their default settings.
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Driver Installation
1. Connect the pen display to your computer.
2. Choose the correct driver for your device from our website: Driver-Huion Note.
3. Click Driver-Huion Note to download it.
4. Double-click the driver and click “OK” to proceed.
5. Check the box to agree with the User Agreement and click “Install Now”.
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6. After the installation has been completed, click on “Try it now”.
7. A picture of Huion Note will appear on the driver interface to indicate a successful
connection. Now you can use your pen display.
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Mac
How to Install the Driver on Mac Device
Notice:
1. Please make sure your computer operating system is macOS 10.12 or later.
2. Open the driver and a picture of Huion Note will appear, indicating that the pen display is
successfully connected to your computer. Now you can use your pen display.
3. If the connection fails, please restart the driver or your computer. For more information,
please refer to Troubleshooting. See section.
Note: The pen display cannot work once the driver is uninstalled or deleted. In this case
please click Driver-Huion Note to reinstall a driver, and your pen display and digital pen will
restore to their default settings.
Driver Installation
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1. Connect the pen display to your computer.
2. Choose the correct driver for your device from our website: Driver-Huion Note.
3. Click Driver-Huion Note to download it.
4. Unzip the driver file and drag the HuionTablet driver application into the “Applications”
folder.
5. Open the folder and then find and double-click the HuionTablet driver application.
6. Connect the pen display to your Mac, and click “Open System Preferences" when prompted.
Go to Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility settings and click the lock icon to unlock the
settings.
Tick the checkbox on the left of the HuionTablet driver application to enable accessibility. Then
click the lock icon to lock the settings.
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7. A picture of Huion Note will appear on the driver interface to indicate that the pen display is
successfully connected to your computer. Now you can use your pen display.
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Linux
How to Install and Uninstall the Drivers on Linux Devices
Notice:
1.Please remember to close the command window and reboot your Linux device after
installing the driver, or the driver will not be useful. After rebooting the device, you can access
the system main menu to find the Huion Tablet driver and then open it to finish some
settings.
2.If you are running Linux operating system on VMware, you must use the VMware
Workstation Pro version. And the Play version of VMware Workstation doesn’t support the
Huion Tablet driver.
3.Some versions of the Ubutun operating system don’t support using more than one monitor
simultaneously. And we recommend you upgrade your system to 20.04LTS or later if you want
to use a Huion painting device on multiple display screens simultaneously smoothly.
Huion Tablet Driver installation packages in 2 different formats are available for
Linux devices:
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· tar.xz (file format)
· deb (file format)
Here are the step-by-step instructions for installing the driver packages in
different file formats respectively:
1.Instructions for installing the driver package file in tar.xz format.
Linux operating systems supported:
Ubuntu
Steps to Install:
1.Extract the contents of the driver file, huiontablet_XXXX.tar.xz, into a folder.
2.Open the command window in the folder.
3.Input the following command: “sudo sh install.sh”, and press the enter key on the keyboard
to make your Linux device execute it.
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4.Enter the user password to complete the installation.
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